Battery Indicator problem

[henrikz]

On Tuesday 23 September 2008 12:25:24 Andy Green wrote:
> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> |> I take it from Your reply that I (i.e. the average FR user) should be
>
> able to
>
> |> see the battery status on the indicator?!
> |
> | If you are indeed using a CC battery, then something is broken. I heard
> | about that once before, so you're not the only one. Perhaps the supplier
> | (and the CC battery internals) changed or it's simpy a bug in the
> | kernel. In that case you need to bring that up to the kernel experts
> | (opening a bug and/or posting to the kernel development list).
>
> What happens if you do:
>
> cat /sys/devices/platform/bq27000-battery.0/power_supply/bat/current_now
>
> -Andy
>
@Mickey and Andy
Thanks for Your replies!

@Andy, here some outputs:

root at om-gta02:~# 
cat /sys/devices/platform/bq27000-battery.0/power_supply/bat/current_now
cat: read error: Timer expired

root at om-gta02:~# 
cat /sys/devices/platform/bq27000-battery.0/power_supply/bat/voltage_now
cat: read error: Timer expired

root at om-gta02:~# apm --monitor
Line   : on
Battery: -1% (?)


And to finish it off some dmesg output

root at om-gta02:~# dmesg | grep bat | tail
[  266.180000] power_supply bat: driver failed to report `temp' property
[  273.545000] power_supply bat: driver failed to report `time_to_full_now' 
property
[  339.365000] power_supply bat: driver failed to report `current_now' 
property
[  365.650000] power_supply bat: driver failed to report `voltage_now' 
property
[  422.885000] power_supply bat: uevent
[  422.885000] power_supply bat: POWER_SUPPLY_NAME=bat
[  422.890000] power_supply bat: Static prop TYPE=Battery
[  422.895000] power_supply bat: 11 dynamic props
[  422.895000] power_supply bat: prop STATUS=Charging
[  422.915000] power_supply bat: driver failed to report `voltage_now' 
property

@Mickey:
between the Plus+ and Minus- sign I have a CC symbol on my battery!

So I am thinking hardware error?! 
Although I recall seeing a full green battery indicator under Qtopia once 
(don't know if it actually worked, i.e. got less full with time etc., since I 
uninstalled Qtopia again) I sure am not seeing one under OM2008.0x :\




-- 
View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Battery-Indicator-problem-tp1107624p1114565.html
Sent from the Openmoko Support mailing list archive at Nabble.com.